President Biden signed a bill unanimously passed by Congress on Monday that requires the federal government to declassify certain intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19.
The 80-year-old president spent more than a week pondering whether to sign the legislation that passed through the Congress earlier this month.
The House of Representatives unanimously approved the bill on the origins of COVID on March 10, after the Senate passed the measure unopposed a week earlier.
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“I share the goal of Congress to release as much information as possible about the origin of coronavirus disease 2019. (Covid-19)Biden said in a statement released by the White House on Monday.
In his statement, the president noted that in 2021 he ordered the Intelligence Community to “use all tools at its disposal” to find out where the virus that caused the global pandemic originated, saying that work is “ongoing.” .
Biden added that his goal is to publish “as much of that information as possible,” including “potential links” to a sketchy Chinese research lab.
“We need to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID-19 to help ensure that we can better prevent future pandemics. My Administration will continue to review all classified information related to the origins of COVID-19including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Biden said.
“By implementing this legislation, my Administration will declassify and will share as much information as possible, consistent with my constitutional authority, to protect against disclosure of information that would harm national security,” the president’s statement concluded.
Biden added that his goal is to publish “as much of that information as possible,” including “potential links” to a sketchy Chinese research lab.
“We need to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID-19 to help ensure that we can better prevent future pandemics. My Administration will continue to review all classified information related to the origins of COVID-19including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Biden said.
“In implementing this legislation, my Administration will declassify and share as much information as possible, consistent with my constitutional authority, to protect against the release of information that would harm national security,” the president’s statement concluded.
the director of the fbiChristopher Wray, told Fox News last month that “for quite some time” the office has “assessed that the origins of the pandemic are likely to be a possible laboratory incident at Wuhan”.
“It seems to me that the Chinese government has been doing everything possible to try to frustrate and obfuscate the work here, the work that we are doing, the work that our government of USA and close foreign associates and that’s unfortunate for everyone. Wray added.